Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 46
I did not like the look of that blister, and I pressed it down with my thumb.
Who acts: I · What happens: not like, press down · To what, where: look, fish
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 like | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 like | advmod |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 look | det |
| 6 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 like | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 blister | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 blister | det |
| 9 | blister | blister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 look | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pressed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pressed | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 pressed | nsubj |
| 13 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 pressed | obj |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 pressed | compound:prt |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 thumb | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 thumb | nmod:poss |
| 18 | thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pressed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | past · do-support | I | the look of that blister | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot look=Theme | ||||
| 2 | press down | past | I | fish | with my thumb | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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